Thursday, 16th October 2008, 19:18
I have added a new section to my homepage. In the future, it will record the notes that I have taken during my travels.
For now, I uploaded my experiences in China. I will add more in the future, as well as some of the past travels that I have done.
Tuesday, 19th August 2008, 22:29
"You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away & know when to run". - Kenny Rodgers
Sure, but by the same note, when life gives you lemons, do whatever you want with them, but please, do NOT make lemonade.
As long as you are not in captivity, your life is your own. Do not let anything trap yourself, especially your own mind.
Freedom - free and dumb.
Monday, May 12th 2008, 10:47
Almost two years since I have graduted from college, and it still seems that I have not done much in my life at all. Everyone gets stuck a few times in their lives, but getting stuck this early in your life poses a unique challange. A normal person my age should be moving in their careers, learning new skills or getting qualifications, making new friends or actively networking, spending time with a date and/or with family and generally creating an identity that one can build up upon once you hit your forties. Two years, and all these checkboxes are still blank. Please do not tell me to lower my expectations either. I am not asking for much - just a normal life, and I really do not think I am going to get one.
Have you ever thought about the primary driving forces of globalization? Many believe it is the "race to the bottom", where large enterprises seek better skills for lower prices, whether it would benefit the labourers and the consumers or not. I hold a different view. I believe that it is simply a desire to look for oppertunities to establish yourself. After the two world wars, industralized and newly industrialized nations all gave birth to a baby-boomer generation that came into being after an intense provess of creative destruction, and they grew up expecting that hard work and intellegence would earn then a place in the world. When oppertunities ran out in their own places, they simply went abroad. The very same motives, in my opinion, that drove the ambitions of territorial expansion of countries in the past. Human desires change more slowly than socio-economic circumstances
But we are very globalized now, for better or for worse, and that is not going to change. Neither would we see any oppertunities for expanding into other planets or star systems in our lifetimes or in the next few centuries. And so our generation, including myself, is born into a world where you have to fight your way past others life yourself, to simply earn for yourself what the past generation took for granted. This leaves us with less resources, time or financially, to deal with other ambitions in our lives, such as charity, spritual pursuits or general interests.
My parents have been pushing me to start dating and eventually have kids. My answer: not until I am doing well enough to make sure my kids will. And I am not doing well right now. Not at all.